Energy
Waste
Water and Sewage
Transport
Green Blue
Buildings & land use
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Tool summary

Name of the tool
Public Planning Forum

Description of the tool
The Public Planning Forum (PPF) is used as a tool for public involvement in project development and implementation.
The tool helps to:
• improve understanding of the potential impacts of proposed projects;
• identify alternative sites or designs, and mitigation measures, to improve the environmental and social soundness;
• clarify values and trade-offs associated of the project alternatives;
• identify contentious issues;
• establish transparent procedures for carrying out proposed projects;
• create accountability and a sense of local ownership during the project implementation.

An effective public participation is guaranteed by: wide dissemination of information before discussion begins; development of a Participation Framework; use of two-way communication with, and wide sampling of, affected people; provision of feedback on results of discussion to participants; modification of project.

The PPF tool reviewed in one of PETUS case study was needed for guaranteeing public participation at an earliest possible stage of the project; for preventing potential conflicts of interests between land/ forest owners and the community; for raising public awareness on the issues discussed.
participants - local authority representatives, municipal experts, local and regional business, sports organisations, NGOs, land- and forest owners, local citizens, project team;
structure - divided into three thematic groups: environment, sports facilities and tourism development; an additional group could be proposed by participants if considered important;
proceedings – presentation by the project team; questions disseminated in advance (aimed at getting an estimation on the town’s present state, the project proposal and its contribution to future urban development);
• tasks to participants - to grade proposals and estimations by importance;
• final product – schemes, written materials, comments, put together into a general written text by facilitator on a white board.

Specific topic
Development of new ski facilities.

Sector/s of use

Waste

Energy

Water

Transport

Green/Blue

Building & Land use

1

1

1

1

M

1

M - main sector, 1 - sub sector and 0 - n/a

Scale of applications

Component

Building

Neighbourhood

City

Region

0

0

1

1

1